The team operating NASA's Opportunity rover has chosen southeast as the direction for the rover's next extended journey, toward a crater more than 20 times wider than "Victoria Crater."
The team operating NASA's Opportunity rover has chosen southeast as the direction for the rover's next extended journey, toward a crater more than 20 times wider than "Victoria Crater."
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed out of "Victoria Crater" following the tracks it had made when it descended into the 800-meter-diameter (half-mile-diameter) bowl nearly a year earlie...
This 180-degree panorama shows the southward vista from the location where Spirit is spending its third Martian winter inside Mars' Gusev Crater.
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.
01.02.08 - NASA's Spirit rover is spending its fourth anniversary on Mars at the northern edge of a low plateau. It landed on Mars Jan. 4, 2004, Universal Time (Jan. 3, 2004, Pacific Time).
Want to know what our intrepid rovers have been up to lately? In our latest Mars Rover report -- Spirit is cloud-watching and Opportunity is moving up in the world.
› View This VideoNow that the worst of Mars winter is past, the intrepid rovers are getting busy again. Find out what Spirit and Opportunity have been up to in our latest Report from Mars.
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